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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

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The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and wh...

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Nebraska Voters Favor Public Option, Want Ben Nelson To Back It

Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Public Option Polls, Public Option, Public Option Polling, Democracy for America, Filibuster, Omaha, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Poll, Public Option Statistics, Insurance Industry, Nelson, Lincoln, Research 2000, Rachel Maddow, Health Insurance, Sen. Nelson, Nebraska, Ben Nelson, Health Care, Politics News

If Ben Nelson decides to filibuster a Democratic health care bill that includes a public insurance option, he should expect to lose support among Nebr...

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A Life in Books

Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

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Jessie Kunhardt

I've never really been able to imagine myself in a job that didn't have something to do with books, which is how I ended up as the HuffPost Books Intern.

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Consumer Reports Reliability Survey: Ford Beats Japan

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

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Honda, Toyota, Acura and Lexus all have deservedly solid reputations for reliability and quality. But according to Consumer Reports' latest Relia...

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Teresa Giudice not losing dream home; 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' drama debunked

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home

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Foreclosure papers were served on a property Giudice owns in Lincoln Park. ...

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Why Can't We Just Say "Obama, We're Proud of You?"

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rabin, Lincoln, Nobel, Joe the Nerd, Gop, Gandhi, Congress, Benigno Aquino, Mlk, Palme, Bhutto, Rfk, Obama, Jfk, Sweden, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.

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Ford adds 4.5M vehicles to defective switch recall

AP | TOM KRISHER and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

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DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will add 4.5 million older-model vehicles to the long list of those recalled because a defective cruise control switch could cause a fire.

The latest voluntary action pushes Ford's total recall due to faulty switches to 14.3 million registered vehicles over 10 years, capping the company's largest cumulative recall in history involving a single problem.

The recall covers 1.1 million Ford Windstar minivans that had a small risk of fire due to internal leaking from the switches. Ford said in a letter to federal regulators that it found a small number of reported fires linked to the problem during an internal investigation that began last year, but did not specify how many.

The remaining 3.4 million vehicles are Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models. Ford said there were no reports of fires with those models, most of them trucks and sport utility vehicles, but that they were included in the recall because they use the same switches. All vehicles covered by the recall are from the 1992 to 2003 model years.

Ford advised owners of all vehicles covered by the recall to park them outside until they are mailed instructions by the end of the month on how to get repairs.

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Ford Recalls 4.5 Million Vehicles Over Defective Cruise Control Switch

AP | TOM KRISHER and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

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DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. says it will add 4.5 million older-model vehicles to the list of those recalled because a defective cruise control switch could cause a fire.

Ford says 1.1 million Ford Windstar minivans will be recalled for repairs due to a small risk of fires.

The company says another 3.4 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles with the same switches also will be recalled even though there have been no reports of fires. Those vehicles mainly are trucks and SUVs.

All vehicles covered by the recall are from the 1992 to 2003 model years.

Sherwood says this is Ford's seventh recall due to the Texas Instruments speed control switches. The recalls cover a total of 14.3 million vehicles and combined are the largest in Ford's history.

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Thanksgiving(?) Again

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, Belief Systems, Enlightenment, Freedom, Thanksgiving, Canada, Democracy, Sovereignty, Judeo-Christian, Gettysburg Address, Politics News
Paula Gordon

I was attacked for an earlier post as un-American for acknowledging Canada's Thanksgiving celebration and for not celebrating America's. Rest assured! I fully intend to celebrate next month as well.

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Monster of Midtown: 440 West 42nd Street Revealed

Curbed | Curbed | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home

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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. What is 440 West 42nd Street? It's the former Hell's Kitchen Swimming Hole in the land of Linco...

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Preview: 2010 Lexus ES 350

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home

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What is it?: The entry-level non-hybrid Lexus sedan The basics: Conservative styling, solid features, reasonable pricing. On sale: Late Septembe...

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dog, Floor, Children, Al Franken, Reform, Casey at the Bat, Town Hall, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Brown, Vetoes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, West Wing, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Schoolchildren, Reid, Reconciliation, Lincoln, President Bartlet, Signs, Joint Session, Conference Committee, Committee, Public Option, Democrat, Congress, Address to Congress, Floor Vote, School, Democrats, Silly Season, Barack Obama, Progressive, Mddotw, Health, Harry Reid, Bill, Senate, Healthcare, Law, Senator Brown, President Obama, Speech, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Legislation, Pelosi, Senator, Insurance, Kids, Schoolkids, Ohio, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Speaker, Baseball, House, Franken, Blanche Lincoln, The West Wing, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Indoctrination, Veto, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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The Republican Punking of America

Manisha Sinha | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, Obama, Slaveholders, Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News
Manisha Sinha

Reduced to a political minority, its economic ideas of individual greed and its politics of division discredited, the GOP is trying to take the country down with it.

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Harry Jaffa: A New Birth of Freedom

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home

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Harry Jaffa: A New Birth of Freedom In a year that marks the two hundredth year since the birth of Lincoln, and the fiftieth year since the publicati...

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The Lincoln Penny Turns 100

TIME | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

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Aug. 2, 2009, marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation. ...

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How to Fix the U.S. Auto Industry

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

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Andy Ostroy

Disappearing ingenuity, poor design and dreadful marketing is to blame for Detroit's troubles, not the poor schlep who toils on the assembly-line for eight hours a day.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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I Came Out of Rehab Because Sean Hannity's A Liar

Dave Hackel | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

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Dave Hackel

Taking someone's words and rearranging them to tell a completely different story is wrong. It's not journalism, reporting or even commentary. It's lying. So why isn't this front page news?

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Ford Is Goin' Back To Capri. Maybe.

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 06.28.2009 | Home

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When you say "Capri" to a Ford fan, you're apt to get a mixed reaction. What started half a century ago as a Lincoln model--and a very sweet cruisi...

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Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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Francesca Biller-Safran

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

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The Other Grey Gardens

Charles Lachman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Style

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Charles Lachman

The recent HBO movie Grey Gardens has been justly praised for its depiction of the squalid lives of "Big Edie" Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie," ...

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America's Willing Torturers

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, Waterboarding, American History, Torture, My Lai, Philip Zimbardo, Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

We stand justified in asking our leaders to hold America to a higher standard -- to probe the decisions and decision-makers who led us to that darkened cell with its waterboards and bug boxes.

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Licoln and Lee: A Seldom-Told Tale

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Stiehm

By seizing an estate once connected to George and Martha Washington, Lincoln made the point that Lee was nothing but a traitor to the government he had served as a career Army general.

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We Are All Americans in the Age of Obama

Manisha Sinha | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

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Manisha Sinha

In his inaugural address, President Obama called on Americans and those outside America to be citizens of the world. It was a fundamentally new approach to global citizenship.

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Mr. Obama's New Wheels -- First Official Look

Steve Parker | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

I never liked the look of the Bush limo. It was too massive and appeared to be a truck that had started out as a tank. Obama's new limo looks more like an actual car, albeit a very big and heavy one.

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